By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
Skepticism is self-contradictory because there are necessary conditions of the possibility of using language that any no, including even a skeptical no, necessarily presupposes and implicitly affirms.
But, then, our linguistic practices as a whole cannot possibly be false in the way in which skepticism assumes that they can.
That any belief or commitment can be questioned and even falsified in no way entails that there is one, and only one, logical kind of belief or commitment because there is one, and only one, logical kind of reasoning appropriate to questioning and even falsifying our beliefs and commitments.
31 August 2002
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